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Fishing Around Tampa Bay
1. At Big Pier 60 in Clearwater, the first nice snook of the season was released Saturday, a 37-incher that weighed about 20 pounds, reports Larry Holder. Spanish mackerel 15-20 inches the primary catch, and excellent numbers of them. Occasional flounder and pompano. Manatees were spotted around the pier on ...
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Kahwa Coffee Roasters eyes expansion
It's easy for Sarah and Raphael Perrier to joke about who's in charge. Just eight years ago, the couple started Kahwa Coffee Roasting. Back then, they were roasting and wholesaling 260 pounds of coffee beans a week. Now, they're roasting more than 4,000 pounds per week and have opened five ...
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Senior prank an attack on the school
TRINITY, Fla. - "I believe this was malicious,' said Jim Michaels, principal at Mitchell High School in Trinity, about a senior prank taken too ...
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FBI seizes cellphones from lawyer Tampa cop in DUI scandal
TAMPA -- Grisham-like allegations that lawyers set up an opposing attorney for a DUI arrest mid trial heated up Thursday when federal agents seized the cellphones of a lawyer and a Tampa police sergeant. The scorching trial of shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem versus his radio nemesis earlier this year took a back seat to the question that's been the buzz of the legal community ever ...
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She says cell carrier let her down
Every time her cell phone rings, Terry Sapp runs out her back door and circles her yard. Sapp claims her San Antonio home has proven to be a dead zone and AT&T can't explain why. But according to AT&T's own website, San Antonio gets moderate coverage. Which sounds okay, but AT&T defines moderate as "...sufficient signal strength for on street in the open coverage, but ...
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Two Pasco PTSA parents caught stealing
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. - Typically, Parent Teacher Student Associations are known for raising money for the students and the school. But this past week in Pasco County, the school district learned thousands of dollars have instead been going into the pockets of two PTSA officers at two different area schools. "It's just kind of sickening. They're taking money away from their own ...
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Hernando detectives investigating shooting in Weeki Wachee
Hernando Sheriff's Office detectives were investigating a shooting in Weeki Wachee Thursday night in which a man suffered life-threatening injuries. Deputies were summoned to 8743 Ostrom Way, where they learned that two men had been in a fight, which led to the shooting. Deputies said in a news release that a suspect was not at large and there was not athreat to the community, but they ...
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Will Afflek film in Ybor City
YBOR CITY, Fla. - His last big movie, Argo, won the Academy Award for best picture. Now Ben Affleck is scouting Tampa Bay for his next project. The actor and director was spotted in Ybor City Tuesday scouting possible locations. Lonnie Herman leads walking tours through Ybor City, passing on his knowledge of the area's history. And that history could soon include another major Hollywood ...
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Women attacked during morning jog
VALRICO, Fla. - Two 18-year-old women had a frightening morning jog Thursday, when investigators said a man jumped out from behind a bush and grabbed one of them by the ...
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Police Trio beat robbed woman 63
"He actually kicked and beat this woman while she was lying on the ground, and the amount of damage we saw suggests that that's accurate," said St. Pete Police spokesperson Mike ...
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Mom Missing soldier suffered from PTSD
BRADENTON, Fla. - A Bradenton family is sending a desperate plea for their 22-year-old soldier, missing from his base at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs since March ...
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Death of friend of Boston Marathon suspect shocks scares Orlando neighbors
KISSIMMEE -- Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen martial-arts fighter killed by an FBI agent in Orlando on Tuesday, was a bit of a mystery to his neighbors in a modest gated community here. They knew little about his lifestyle, his travels or his relationship with one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. They did know him as the kind of guy who helped neighbors in the multi-ethnic Sun ...
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Aging party mansion built by Gary Sheffield heads to auction
ST. PETERSBURG -- When Gary Sheffield, once one of baseball's highest-paid players, built his multimillion-dollar party mansion in Pinellas Point in 1997, he aimed for that special tier of excess few but pro athletes can afford. The master suite's California king bed was laid on black marble near what look like the highest-end speakerphones, stereos and VCRs the late '90s had to ...
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Rabbi Frank Sundheim a musician and scholar dies at 81
TAMPA -- In 1986, Rabbi Frank Sundheim stepped down from his full-time pastorate at Congregation Schaarai Zedek, where he had served for 20 years. But Rabbi Sundheim hardly retired. He led a regional office for Reform Judaism, then returned to the ministry, serving as a part-time rabbi at several congregations in Hernando, Pinellas and Polk counties. He played the violin and organ, sang ...
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USF eyes degree programs for termination
TAMPA -- In tight financial times, Florida universities have been told to comb degree programs to figure out which ones work, which ones need help and which ones need to go. The University of South Florida has taken it a step further, targeting expendable degrees before someone at the state level does it for them. On Thursday, the school's Board of Trustees identified 17 degrees that will ...
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Pasco sheriff judge trade ideas to address jail overcrowding
There was a milestone at the Pasco County jail on Tuesday night. With a 1,550 inmates, the facility had its highest head count ever. That's 374 more prisoners than the number of permanent beds on the first two floors of the facility. "Is it a crisis? Yes," said Maj. Ed Beckman, "when you have 1,550 prisoners backed in an area designed to hold 1,200, there are ...
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Attempted murder suspect on the loose
BROOKSVILLE, Fla - A two county manhunt is underway for an attempted murder suspect authorities believe to be armed and dangerous,. Citrus County deputies say Kyle Lee Chunn was last spotted there on Tuesday. They believe he has contacts in Belleview, Florida. According to Brooksville Police Chief George Turner, Chunn and his girlfriend, Lacie Nicole Swan, 19, drove to an apartment complex off ...
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The girl the grown-ups and the prom that wasnt
The twisted tale of the prom and the parent, the principal and the teacher, and in the end, the police, had some great teachable moments. Mostly for grownups. Diana Byrnes' daughter Caroline, a junior at River Ridge High in New Port Richey, wanted to go to her prom at the Lowry Park Zoo. She busted deadline to buy the ticket. Her mom and her principal squared off. And it is fair to say ...
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Holiday home with 28 pets filled with flies feces neighbor says
HOLIDAY - The beige stucco house was unassuming from the outside. A pink, flowered "Welcome" sign hung from one of the eaves in front, and a Rays sticker was posted in a window. In the first lot of a quiet, dead-end street, neighbors say the people they saw living there were equally subdued. Until someone got closer. A moving truck pulled up in the driveway at 1011 Hiawatha Place on ...
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Brooksville man gets life sentence in May 2012 burglary battery
BROOKSVILLE -- In a last-ditch effort to keep his brother from spending the rest of his life in prison, William Glover took the stand and confessed one more time. Glover testified Thursday that it was him, not his 21-year-old brother, Derius, who burst into a Cinco de Mayo house party in Spring Hill last year and beat a man with a bat. "My brother did not do this," William Glover ...
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Hernando Aviation Authority refuses to speed up process of leasing airport facility
BROOKSVILLE -- The Hernando County Aviation Authority on Thursday unanimously declined the County Commission's request to speed up the process of leasing the site of the old Brooksville Air Center at Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport. Earlier this month, the authority asked for detailed proposals by interested companies by June 3 so board members could read them, prepare questions and ...
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Bloomin Brands posts gains after pricing offering Video
May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bloombergs Alix Steel, Adam Johnson and Julie Hyman report on todays ten most important stocks including Dollar Tree, GameStop and Hewlett-Packard. (Source: Bloomberg) Bloomin Brands stock rose 2.93 percent on Thursday following an announcement that top shareholders were selling some of their holdings for $21.50 a share. Bloomin Brands (NASDAQ: BLMN) closed Thursday at ...
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Forecasters could face furloughs during hurricane season
With hurricane season approaching and the devastating Oklahoma tornado only days past, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is considering mandatory furloughs for all employees, including weather forecasters. The proposal has produced sharp reaction from meteorologists and an elected official. "The severe weather events in Oklahoma this week have further convinced me that ...
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FHP closes northbound I-75 in Pasco diverts traffic to SR 54 after fatal crash
WESLEY CHAPEL -- The northbound lanes of Interstate 75 have been closed, and traffic is being diverted onto State Road 54, as the Florida Highway Patrol investigates a fatal crash. A woman traveling on foot was hit by a northbound car about 3:30 p.m. on I-75, about midway between State Road 52 and SR 54, the agency said. After hitting the woman, the car collided with another vehicle. The ...
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Report Sweetbay grocery chain may be on the sales block
The Tampa-based Sweetbay supermarket chain may be put up for sale by Belgian owner Delhaize as it continues to cut costs in the United States, Reuters reported. Delhaize has hired Lazard Ltd to sell Sweetbay as well as Harveys, another U.S. supermarket businesses, Reuters said, citing unnamed sources. Delhaize CEO Pierre-Olivier Beckers, who has announced plans to retire, told Reuters that the ...
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The Pier in danger after decades of memories and pictures
Advocates for The Pier want it to be renovated and restored in its current form, kept as the tourist attraction it is, while city officials feel it would be more economical and feasible to tear it down and replace it with a new structure. The advocates for The Pier want us to decide.
The Pier, as it is called by St Petersburg residents, or the St Petersburg Pier, as it is known nationally and even internationally, is one of the major landmarks of the city and a seminal tourist attraction and has been visited by tens of millions of people during the course of its existence, but it may soon be demolished and replaced, which has courted the anger of many residents. Read more
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